Gramps moved with lightning speed to keep the plant life, Mother Naturia, from getting a grip on Alison and Abby. He tore at the branches and shrubs that kept trying to crawl up their legs.

​     "Look!" Abby shouted, pointing. "There it is!"

     Janet.

     She would reach their location within seconds.

​     Yes!

     They were saved! 

     Then, 

     The ground between Abby and Janet rose a thousand feet, and, as it did, it took shape...

​     to become Mother Naturia.

     "WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!" she bellowed.

     She swatted at Janet like Janet was a bothersome fly, and Janet reacted like a fly, darting this way and that. 

     We're never going to get to Gramps and his family this way, Niki thought. 

     She sat down at the controls. 

     "I'm taking over, Janet," she said. 

​     "As you wish."

                                                CONTINUE